Ephraim Morrill (1717)

Born 9 Dec 1717 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Hoyt) Morrill — married 6 Jan 1747 in South Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Descendants

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Biography

Ephraim Morrill was b at Salisbury, MA, 9 Dec 1717, the son of Ezekiel Morrill and Abigail Wadleigh, ^[1] married 6 Jan 1746/47, Dorothy Hoyt, b at Amesbury, 23 Aug 1718, the daughter of Joseph Hoyt and Dorothy Worthen. ^{[2] [3]} Ephraim was "of Kingston" at the time of his marriage. The History of Canterbury says he took up land in Canterbury, but was later a proprietor of Gilmanton, going there c1766. ^[4] Gilmanton is a town near Lake Winnipesaukee. It was there that the Morrills found themselves in 1776, when all settlers were being asked to sign the Association Test. Both Ephraim Morrill and his son Ephraim, Jr., born in 1750, did so, thereby winning an appearance in the DAR Patriot Index.

Ephraim's and Dorothy's children were:

1. Jeremiah Morrill (1746– )
2. Nathan Morrill (1748– )
3. Dorothy Morrill (1748– )
4. Ephraim Morrill, Jr. (1750– )
5. Joseph Morrill (1752–1846)

Sources

1. ↑ Daniel W. Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (Snow & Farnham, Printers, Providence, RI, 1897, reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA, n.d.), p. 256
2. ↑ Daniel W. Hoyt, op. cit., p. 208
3. ↑ Ann Tilden Morton, The Descendants of Edmund James Through His Son Benjamin of Hampton, New Hampshire (The James House Association, Hampton, NH, 2003), p. 7
4. ↑ James Otis Lyford, The History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1727-1912 (2 vols., The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H., 1912), vol. 2, p. 254 [1]

• Tibbetts, Charles W., ed. The New Hampshire Genealogical Record (Charles W. Tibbetts, Dover, N.H., 1906) Vol. 3, Page 43. Kingston Marriage record.